The relationship between the far right and truth has been largely explored through the concept of post-truth politics. Despite its contributions, this approach has often associated far-right discourses with appeals to emotion and existing beliefs, casting a shadow on how the far right has engaged in a battle for the power to produce truth, often mimicking journalistic authority to imbue its discourses with truth-value. In this article, we explore two hypotheses: that far-right media outlets based in different countries have used similar legitimation techniques to perform xenophobic discourses as objective facts and that, despite producing content to different audiences, they have produced common truth claims. By conducting a comparative analysis of content shared by three far-right media outlets on their X accounts, we not only confirmed our hypotheses but also observed that their truth claims have reinforced ties of racial solidarity among White populations in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, appealing to them as ‘native peoples.’ Besides proposing new directions to debates on the nexus between the far right and truth, our findings expose the xenophobic and racist essence of the far-right politics of truth.
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